I know they said it was going to rain in qualifying (7 minutes past Renualt said) and it never came. Mind games? Idiots?
I doubt it will rain but we can live in hope.
I doubt it will rain but we can live in hope.
The F1 Thread 2008 Season
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
Bit of confusion there but on the parade lap now.
The starts are the best part. Apart from when he screams GO GO GOOOOOO!
The starts are the best part. Apart from when he screams GO GO GOOOOOO!
Lewis flying, up four places to 5th after the first two corners.
Great driving.
Great driving.
Ferraris fighting with each other Massa took his position back well though. Good move by Hamilton on Trulli, just about kept it.
Great driving there between Alonso and Coulthard. Crazy cnuts.
Great driving there between Alonso and Coulthard. Crazy cnuts.
That was brilliant from Alonso and Coultard, side by side racing, neither giving an inch, Alonso gets the pass.
Disaster pitstop for Hamilton
Drivers in pits. Both Ferraris in looking great. Raikonnen comes out ahead - JUST - similar to what he did a few times last year. Reckon he will win. I rate Kimi, class driver. Wonder if they have totally sorted their overheating / engine problems. I can't see them pushing like mad all race.
Problems for Lewis when pitting with the right front tyre. Comes back out 11th. He was on for the podium but who knows now. Kovalainen comes out fifth - chance of a podium if he can manage it. Doubt it.
feckin' ad breaks.
Problems for Lewis when pitting with the right front tyre. Comes back out 11th. He was on for the podium but who knows now. Kovalainen comes out fifth - chance of a podium if he can manage it. Doubt it.
feckin' ad breaks.
Massa is off!
I've done that, but can't sleep as I have work at 9!Same here. Ain't even been asleep either. Plan on having a kip between the finish of the race and the match!
Straight to the pub for the game when finished.
Been decent race so far, shame about Hamiltons wheel tho.
Had a feeling at least one of the Ferraris would make a mistake
cnuts
5th 
It could have been so much better.
It could have been so much better.
Massa should get the hair drier treatment. His selfishness and ego could cost them the team championship.
Hehe
Massa is an idiot, he cost Ferrari a potential 8 championship points.
Bit of a come down after Australia, eventful enough race but no real fight for the lead again. I feel cheated to have had no rain whatsoever after all the predictions, bloody weatherfolk
Kudos to Raikkonen's media trainer, what a stirling job they must have done
Kudos to Raikkonen's media trainer, what a stirling job they must have done
Massa you cnut. Not worthy of driving a Ferrari. Other great drivers never got the chance, he has it and he pisses it away. Swap with Vettel next season I hope.
Thats what I think will Massa is out at end of the season to me either Vettel or a super team with Kimi and Alonso.
Bit boring if I have to be honest. Maybe it was partly to do with no sleep and it being in the morning but it wasn't all that good. I even fell asleep with a few laps to go and woke back up with the telly still on at 9.10 thinking did he win!
He's great at this team building stuff ain't he...
Would be good to see him in a competitive car though.
The guy is a completely detestable prick. If I knew then what I knew now when I was supporting Alonso in his championship fights against Schumacher... well I'd still be supporting Alonso actually! He'll have to go some to reach Schumachers levels of cheatery and cuntery. And Alonso does still have some redeeming qualities. If you look hard enough
Can't argue with that.
I used to support him in his battles with Schumacher too, kind of feel dirty now.
This is tabloid gold dust, I can't see how Mosley can possibly retain his job:
F1 boss Max Mosley has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers
EDIT: NotW have removed the original Nazi orgy picture from their website, presumably due to the impending legal action
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/3003_nazi_orgy.shtml
FORMULA One motor racing chief Max Mosley is today exposed as a secret sado-masochist sex pervert.
The son of infamous British wartime fascist leader Oswald Mosley is filmed romping with five hookers at a depraved NAZI-STYLE orgy in a torture dungeon. Mosley— a friend to F1 big names like Bernie Ecclestone and Lewis Hamilton— barks ORDERS in GERMAN as he lashes girls wearing mock DEATH CAMP uniforms and enjoys being whipped until he BLEEDS.
The multi-millionaire son of Sir Oswald, who was a pal of Adolf Hitler, plays a concentration camp commandant in a FIVE-HOUR torture chamber video.
Mosley—the most powerful man in motor-racing—barks orders in German as he WHIPS two hookers dressed in striped uniforms reminiscent of AUSCHWITZ garb while girls in Nazi uniforms look on.
At one point the wrinkled 67-year-old—who publicly likes to give the impression he has put his father's evil legacy behind him—yells "she needs more of ze punishment!" while brandishing a LEATHER STRAP over a brunette's naked bottom.
Then the lashes rain down as Mosley counts them out in German: "Eins! Zwei! Drei! Vier! Fünf! Sechs!"
With each blow, the girl yelps in pain as grinning, grey-haired Mosley becomes clearly aroused. And after the beating, he makes her perform a sex act on him.
Last month the urbane president of the FIA—Formula One's governing body—hit the headlines when he announced a crackdown on racism in the sport after McLaren ace Lewis Hamilton was abused by Spanish spectators.
But on Friday the only ‘crackdowns' married Mosley was interested in were on bare buttocks...including his own.
Plaster
Before hammering away at the girls he plays a cowering death camp inmate himself, having his GENITALS inspected and his hair searched for LICE—mocking the humiliating way Jews were treated by SS death camp guards in World War II.
Then, head bowed and tied up in chains, he is interrogated by a dominatrix before being chained up and LASHED so hard over a TORTURE BENCH that he WHIMPERS for mercy and has to have a wound dressing put on his backside.
His Jew-hating father—who had Hitler as guest of honour at his marriage—would have been proud of his warped son's command of German as he struts around looking for bottoms to whack.
But even the vile Thirties fascist—whose blackshirt thugs terrorised London's East End—might have been less impressed with the sordid company his offspring keeps.
Mosley's appointment with his hookers was at a smart £2million riverside flat on London's Chelsea Embankment at noon on Friday.
Our investigators obtained a graphic video of his sick antics.
The girls arrived first, led by the main dominatrix, a stern-faced blonde, carrying a suitcase laden with whips, chains and uniforms. Half an hour later, Mosley—married to devoted wife Jean since 1960—turned up wearing a smart overcoat and suit after making the short walk from his nearby London home.
The 6ft 2in former barrister once helped his father try to restart his political career in the Sixties with a new fascist Union Movement party. He was even a prospective parliamentary candidate himself.
But the party that got his vote on Friday was one involving violent perversion in a rigged-up basement torture dungeon.
After paying £2,500 in cash, Mosley—a good friend of F1 billionaire Bernie Ecclestone—was ordered by the head hooker to strip as she played out his sick fantasy.
"OK, undress," she snapped. "UNDRESS! You are going to be punished to be shown how we treat prisoners in our facility."
As his white Y-fronts hit the floor, the powerfully built blonde barked out her orders: "Head down. Let's see if they have been keeping you clean at the other facility.
"Hurry up! Lie face down! Don't look at me!" Mosley meekly obeyed and was chained and manacled before another blonde dominatrix, wearing only a jacket, shirt and knee-length boots, entered the room.
As another hooker ticked off points on an inspection sheet, she roughly scrutinised his head and private parts before demanding his age. "I'm 42," he whispered, lying to attract a severe beating. He also lied about his name, saying he was called Tim Barnes, so the punishment would be really painful.
He got what he wanted. "You are now going to be punished," hissed the dominatrix. "You are going to receive 12 strokes of the birch plus another three for not telling me your real age. Then you will receive six strokes of the cane."
Mosley was then bent over and strapped naked to a leather torture bench. The muscular blonde dealt him 15 savage blows. Towards the end Mosley was whimpering and gasped for breath. Reddened and bruised, he then received a further six strokes with a cane.
His flogging over, he left the room before saying, "Thank you, mistress". After having his wounds dressed, Mosley makes the transformation from masochist to sadist. Now fully clothed, he bends two blonde girls over the whipping bench, their striped concentration camp-style uniform bottoms yanked down to expose their buttocks.
He converses in German with one girl throughout the torture, loving every minute of death camp role-play, while the other girl pleads: "I don't know what you are saying, so I don't know what to do."
Oxford-educated Mosley has refused to condemn his father who was considered so dangerous he was interned during the war. He once said in an interview: "He was wonderful as a person. But I don't think my father would have made a good dictator. He talked tough but, fundamentally, he was too soft."
Whereas his son is a hard man—especially when it comes to beating girls' naked bottoms. One of the hookers is strapped into a gag to stifle her screams as Mosley lays into her backside in front of the other four girls. With a Nazi swagger, he counts each stroke in German before having sex with his ‘victim'.
A frantic orgy then begins, as a brunette hooker is strapped to a bench before a dominatrix uses a sex toy on her. Later she performs a lesbian act on one of the blondes. Red-faced and panting, Mosley looks on like a child in a sweet shop, but surrounded by bright red bottoms.
The orgy lasted almost five hours and the five hookers spent the final ten minutes laughing and drinking wine together. One said: "The girls have all had a good seeing-to!"
After the sex marathon, Mosley dressed again and had a quick pit-stop, turning down wine in favour of a cup of tea. At 5.05pm, he put on his overcoat and disappeared into the blustery afternoon to resume his other life as Max the respectable motor-racing mogul who will be officiating at the next Formula One Grand Prix in Bahrain next weekend.
It was his wife of 48 years, Jean, who introduced him to his love of motorsport. After meeting him at a fascist Union Movement rally she took him to his first race meeting to watch British ace Stirling Moss.
On choosing the grand prix world—a decision his father opposed as "dangerous and unwise"—over politics, Mosley said: "It was an escape from the political arguments. I got fed up. Nobody knew me in racing, though in Germany and Austria people used to sidle up and whisper, ‘Your father vaz a great man'."
In 2005, Mosley—who has two children, Alexander, 37, and 35-year-old Patrick—was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, one of the highest decorations in France, for his services to motor sport. In the late 1970s, he became the official legal adviser to the Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA)—the body that represents the teams.
With his sharp legal mind and devotion to the sport, he soon rose to the top and was first elected president of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) in 1993.
Speaking of his role in the FIA and his friendship with Bernie Ecclestone, he once said: "My job as president of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile isn't paid. But I've done business with Bernie outside Formula One. In property mainly.
"Money doesn't turn me on and I like to think I can leave whenever I want."
Money doesn't have to turn him on—he's already rich. A multi-millionaire, he has a base in Monaco and a £3 million home in London's fashionable Chelsea.
Shadow
As well as inheriting from his father and mother—society beauty and Nazi sympathiser Diana Mitford—he made a fortune selling his shares in March Engineering in 1977.
But the shadow of his Nazi father is always in the background. Mosley Jnr once claimed his father—who died in 1980—disliked Hitler, thinking him "over the top", but he admitted Oswald admired Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
He said of his mother, who died in 2003: "It was true she liked Hitler. Apparently he was an enormously attractive personality."
Now Mosley has shown his true colours too—and brought a new kind of shame on his already tarnished family name.
F1 boss Max Mosley has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers
EDIT: NotW have removed the original Nazi orgy picture from their website, presumably due to the impending legal action
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/3003_nazi_orgy.shtml
FORMULA One motor racing chief Max Mosley is today exposed as a secret sado-masochist sex pervert.
The son of infamous British wartime fascist leader Oswald Mosley is filmed romping with five hookers at a depraved NAZI-STYLE orgy in a torture dungeon. Mosley— a friend to F1 big names like Bernie Ecclestone and Lewis Hamilton— barks ORDERS in GERMAN as he lashes girls wearing mock DEATH CAMP uniforms and enjoys being whipped until he BLEEDS.
The multi-millionaire son of Sir Oswald, who was a pal of Adolf Hitler, plays a concentration camp commandant in a FIVE-HOUR torture chamber video.
Mosley—the most powerful man in motor-racing—barks orders in German as he WHIPS two hookers dressed in striped uniforms reminiscent of AUSCHWITZ garb while girls in Nazi uniforms look on.
At one point the wrinkled 67-year-old—who publicly likes to give the impression he has put his father's evil legacy behind him—yells "she needs more of ze punishment!" while brandishing a LEATHER STRAP over a brunette's naked bottom.
Then the lashes rain down as Mosley counts them out in German: "Eins! Zwei! Drei! Vier! Fünf! Sechs!"
With each blow, the girl yelps in pain as grinning, grey-haired Mosley becomes clearly aroused. And after the beating, he makes her perform a sex act on him.
Last month the urbane president of the FIA—Formula One's governing body—hit the headlines when he announced a crackdown on racism in the sport after McLaren ace Lewis Hamilton was abused by Spanish spectators.
But on Friday the only ‘crackdowns' married Mosley was interested in were on bare buttocks...including his own.
Plaster
Before hammering away at the girls he plays a cowering death camp inmate himself, having his GENITALS inspected and his hair searched for LICE—mocking the humiliating way Jews were treated by SS death camp guards in World War II.
Then, head bowed and tied up in chains, he is interrogated by a dominatrix before being chained up and LASHED so hard over a TORTURE BENCH that he WHIMPERS for mercy and has to have a wound dressing put on his backside.
His Jew-hating father—who had Hitler as guest of honour at his marriage—would have been proud of his warped son's command of German as he struts around looking for bottoms to whack.
But even the vile Thirties fascist—whose blackshirt thugs terrorised London's East End—might have been less impressed with the sordid company his offspring keeps.
Mosley's appointment with his hookers was at a smart £2million riverside flat on London's Chelsea Embankment at noon on Friday.
Our investigators obtained a graphic video of his sick antics.
The girls arrived first, led by the main dominatrix, a stern-faced blonde, carrying a suitcase laden with whips, chains and uniforms. Half an hour later, Mosley—married to devoted wife Jean since 1960—turned up wearing a smart overcoat and suit after making the short walk from his nearby London home.
The 6ft 2in former barrister once helped his father try to restart his political career in the Sixties with a new fascist Union Movement party. He was even a prospective parliamentary candidate himself.
But the party that got his vote on Friday was one involving violent perversion in a rigged-up basement torture dungeon.
After paying £2,500 in cash, Mosley—a good friend of F1 billionaire Bernie Ecclestone—was ordered by the head hooker to strip as she played out his sick fantasy.
"OK, undress," she snapped. "UNDRESS! You are going to be punished to be shown how we treat prisoners in our facility."
As his white Y-fronts hit the floor, the powerfully built blonde barked out her orders: "Head down. Let's see if they have been keeping you clean at the other facility.
"Hurry up! Lie face down! Don't look at me!" Mosley meekly obeyed and was chained and manacled before another blonde dominatrix, wearing only a jacket, shirt and knee-length boots, entered the room.
As another hooker ticked off points on an inspection sheet, she roughly scrutinised his head and private parts before demanding his age. "I'm 42," he whispered, lying to attract a severe beating. He also lied about his name, saying he was called Tim Barnes, so the punishment would be really painful.
He got what he wanted. "You are now going to be punished," hissed the dominatrix. "You are going to receive 12 strokes of the birch plus another three for not telling me your real age. Then you will receive six strokes of the cane."
Mosley was then bent over and strapped naked to a leather torture bench. The muscular blonde dealt him 15 savage blows. Towards the end Mosley was whimpering and gasped for breath. Reddened and bruised, he then received a further six strokes with a cane.
His flogging over, he left the room before saying, "Thank you, mistress". After having his wounds dressed, Mosley makes the transformation from masochist to sadist. Now fully clothed, he bends two blonde girls over the whipping bench, their striped concentration camp-style uniform bottoms yanked down to expose their buttocks.
He converses in German with one girl throughout the torture, loving every minute of death camp role-play, while the other girl pleads: "I don't know what you are saying, so I don't know what to do."
Oxford-educated Mosley has refused to condemn his father who was considered so dangerous he was interned during the war. He once said in an interview: "He was wonderful as a person. But I don't think my father would have made a good dictator. He talked tough but, fundamentally, he was too soft."
Whereas his son is a hard man—especially when it comes to beating girls' naked bottoms. One of the hookers is strapped into a gag to stifle her screams as Mosley lays into her backside in front of the other four girls. With a Nazi swagger, he counts each stroke in German before having sex with his ‘victim'.
A frantic orgy then begins, as a brunette hooker is strapped to a bench before a dominatrix uses a sex toy on her. Later she performs a lesbian act on one of the blondes. Red-faced and panting, Mosley looks on like a child in a sweet shop, but surrounded by bright red bottoms.
The orgy lasted almost five hours and the five hookers spent the final ten minutes laughing and drinking wine together. One said: "The girls have all had a good seeing-to!"
After the sex marathon, Mosley dressed again and had a quick pit-stop, turning down wine in favour of a cup of tea. At 5.05pm, he put on his overcoat and disappeared into the blustery afternoon to resume his other life as Max the respectable motor-racing mogul who will be officiating at the next Formula One Grand Prix in Bahrain next weekend.
It was his wife of 48 years, Jean, who introduced him to his love of motorsport. After meeting him at a fascist Union Movement rally she took him to his first race meeting to watch British ace Stirling Moss.
On choosing the grand prix world—a decision his father opposed as "dangerous and unwise"—over politics, Mosley said: "It was an escape from the political arguments. I got fed up. Nobody knew me in racing, though in Germany and Austria people used to sidle up and whisper, ‘Your father vaz a great man'."
In 2005, Mosley—who has two children, Alexander, 37, and 35-year-old Patrick—was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, one of the highest decorations in France, for his services to motor sport. In the late 1970s, he became the official legal adviser to the Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA)—the body that represents the teams.
With his sharp legal mind and devotion to the sport, he soon rose to the top and was first elected president of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) in 1993.
Speaking of his role in the FIA and his friendship with Bernie Ecclestone, he once said: "My job as president of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile isn't paid. But I've done business with Bernie outside Formula One. In property mainly.
"Money doesn't turn me on and I like to think I can leave whenever I want."
Money doesn't have to turn him on—he's already rich. A multi-millionaire, he has a base in Monaco and a £3 million home in London's fashionable Chelsea.
Shadow
As well as inheriting from his father and mother—society beauty and Nazi sympathiser Diana Mitford—he made a fortune selling his shares in March Engineering in 1977.
But the shadow of his Nazi father is always in the background. Mosley Jnr once claimed his father—who died in 1980—disliked Hitler, thinking him "over the top", but he admitted Oswald admired Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
He said of his mother, who died in 2003: "It was true she liked Hitler. Apparently he was an enormously attractive personality."
Now Mosley has shown his true colours too—and brought a new kind of shame on his already tarnished family name.
Well that is one crazy read. Not just for all that stuff but I didn't even know about the whole German/Nazi/parents stuff.
Tabloid gold dust indeed.
Tabloid gold dust indeed.
Bernie @ the 20th February 2008:
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/20022008/23/bernie-enough-sex-scandals-f1-anymore.html
Max acted instantly
5 hours straight, great stamina for a 67-year-old.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/20022008/23/bernie-enough-sex-scandals-f1-anymore.html
Max acted instantly 5 hours straight, great stamina for a 67-year-old.
Apparently Max is denying it...
Max Mosley denies Nazi claims in orgy scandal
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3663230.ece
Max Mosley, the president of the FIA, has said that he spoke in German during a sado-masochistic orgy with five prostitutes not because he was fantasising about being a Nazi but because several of the prostitutes involved were German speakers.
The News of the World alleged that Mosley, who is facing calls to resign from one of the most powerful jobs in motor sport, spanked at least one prostitute with a leather strap and counted out the strokes in German as he did so. The paper claimed that this was evidence of a Nazi-style fantasy on the part of Mosley and it also alleged that the FIA president engaged in role play as a concentration camp inmate during the five-hour orgy in a West London flat last Friday.
However, The Times has learnt that, as part of his legal action against the News of the World, Mosley will argue that he spoke in German only because at least two of the five prostitutes were German and that there was no intention on his part to engage in activity that could be said to have Nazi overtones.
After three days of lurid headlines and calls for him to resign, Mosley is going on the offensive over a scandal that has shocked Formula One and the boardrooms of the car manufacturers who compete in the sport. Since the story broke on Sunday, he has spent many hours speaking to lawyers, assembling a case against the paper that will centre on invasion of privacy and his belief that he was the victim of a set-up. It appears that Mosley will not deny that he took part in the orgy but will dispute the context in which it occurred.
In a letter to all the members of the FIA that is expected to be published today, Mosley claims that he has been the victim of a “deliberate and calculated personal attack” after what he said was a “covert investigation” of his private life and background. He said that he had been told about the investigation by what he called an “impeccable high-level source close to the UK police and security services”.
“Regrettably, you are now familiar with the results of this covert investigation and I am very sorry if this has embarrassed you or the club,” Mosley said, before adding that he had received a “very large number” of messages of support from people within the FIA and motor sport. These messages had underlined, he said, that his private life is not relevant to his work and that he should continue in his role as FIA president.
“I shall now devote some time to those responsible for putting this into the public domain but, above all, I need to repair the damage to my immediate family, who are the innocent and unsuspecting victims of this deliberate and personal attack,” he said.
While Mosley may have his supporters, inquiries by The Times suggest that there is also widespread revulsion at his behaviour, whether there was a Nazi connotation to it or not. The scandal has been discussed at boardroom level in most of the big car manufacturers and there have been rumours that a statement from several of them calling for Mosley's resignation has been considered.
The impression given by the manufacturers and the Formula One teams is that people are nervous about speaking out, fearing Mosley's wrath at a later date, should he remain in his post. In the meantime, there is bemusement that he has the nerve to continue. As one senior figure in Formula One put it: “How can you have a leader of industry, which is what Formula One is, who is a pervert?”
In the immediate future, Mosley has perhaps wisely chosen to stay away from this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix, claiming that he is too busy with lawyers to make the trip. There is little doubt, however, that he has recognised that, as predicted by Bernie Ecclestone, Formula One's commercial rights holder, his presence would distract attention from the race and embarrass the Bahraini royal family.
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Very large number of support messages following his Nazi sex orgy with 5 prostitutes? Never have the words 'bull' and 'shit' come together in such sensuous harmony
Why the hell should this guy be allowed to stay in his position? He demanded a hard line on McClarens faults last year, but it's a different ball game when the flaks on him eh. He has effectively been banned from attending this weekends GP by Ecclestone for fear of upstaging the event and embarrasing the Bahrain royal family. His position is therefore untenable
Max Mosley denies Nazi claims in orgy scandal
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article3663230.ece
Max Mosley, the president of the FIA, has said that he spoke in German during a sado-masochistic orgy with five prostitutes not because he was fantasising about being a Nazi but because several of the prostitutes involved were German speakers.
The News of the World alleged that Mosley, who is facing calls to resign from one of the most powerful jobs in motor sport, spanked at least one prostitute with a leather strap and counted out the strokes in German as he did so. The paper claimed that this was evidence of a Nazi-style fantasy on the part of Mosley and it also alleged that the FIA president engaged in role play as a concentration camp inmate during the five-hour orgy in a West London flat last Friday.
However, The Times has learnt that, as part of his legal action against the News of the World, Mosley will argue that he spoke in German only because at least two of the five prostitutes were German and that there was no intention on his part to engage in activity that could be said to have Nazi overtones.
After three days of lurid headlines and calls for him to resign, Mosley is going on the offensive over a scandal that has shocked Formula One and the boardrooms of the car manufacturers who compete in the sport. Since the story broke on Sunday, he has spent many hours speaking to lawyers, assembling a case against the paper that will centre on invasion of privacy and his belief that he was the victim of a set-up. It appears that Mosley will not deny that he took part in the orgy but will dispute the context in which it occurred.
In a letter to all the members of the FIA that is expected to be published today, Mosley claims that he has been the victim of a “deliberate and calculated personal attack” after what he said was a “covert investigation” of his private life and background. He said that he had been told about the investigation by what he called an “impeccable high-level source close to the UK police and security services”.
“Regrettably, you are now familiar with the results of this covert investigation and I am very sorry if this has embarrassed you or the club,” Mosley said, before adding that he had received a “very large number” of messages of support from people within the FIA and motor sport. These messages had underlined, he said, that his private life is not relevant to his work and that he should continue in his role as FIA president.
“I shall now devote some time to those responsible for putting this into the public domain but, above all, I need to repair the damage to my immediate family, who are the innocent and unsuspecting victims of this deliberate and personal attack,” he said.
While Mosley may have his supporters, inquiries by The Times suggest that there is also widespread revulsion at his behaviour, whether there was a Nazi connotation to it or not. The scandal has been discussed at boardroom level in most of the big car manufacturers and there have been rumours that a statement from several of them calling for Mosley's resignation has been considered.
The impression given by the manufacturers and the Formula One teams is that people are nervous about speaking out, fearing Mosley's wrath at a later date, should he remain in his post. In the meantime, there is bemusement that he has the nerve to continue. As one senior figure in Formula One put it: “How can you have a leader of industry, which is what Formula One is, who is a pervert?”
In the immediate future, Mosley has perhaps wisely chosen to stay away from this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix, claiming that he is too busy with lawyers to make the trip. There is little doubt, however, that he has recognised that, as predicted by Bernie Ecclestone, Formula One's commercial rights holder, his presence would distract attention from the race and embarrass the Bahraini royal family.
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Very large number of support messages following his Nazi sex orgy with 5 prostitutes? Never have the words 'bull' and 'shit' come together in such sensuous harmony
Why the hell should this guy be allowed to stay in his position? He demanded a hard line on McClarens faults last year, but it's a different ball game when the flaks on him eh. He has effectively been banned from attending this weekends GP by Ecclestone for fear of upstaging the event and embarrasing the Bahrain royal family. His position is therefore untenable
Indeed, how can anyone take this guy serious after this?
Other news:
Having 20 also gives us the chance too keep some of the good well known tracks seen as Bernie is on a crusade to hand a few over to the other side of the world.
Kubica on pole position for today Bahrain Grand Prix.
Nice to see BMW doing well so far this season.
When was the last time someone not from Ferrari or McLaren got pole?
probably Alonso from Renault?
Probably. I'm just wondering how many races ago.
Wait, it was the Chinese Grand Prix in 2006. 23 races ago.
well he fecked that start up didnt he
Hamilton
now Hamilton has lost his front wing after hitting alonso
did alonso slow down there?
did alonso slow down there?
Hamilton lost his front wing, oh dear
Kimi in second now
Kimi up to 2nd now, a Ferrari 1-2
So did Alonso breaktest Hamilton then?
Wouldn't put it past the bitter cnut.
Wouldn't put it past the bitter cnut.